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Team information | ||||||
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Nicknames | Maroons Cane toads | |||||
Governing body | Queensland Rugby League | |||||
Head coach | Billy Slater | |||||
Captain | Daly Cherry-Evans | |||||
Most caps | Cameron Smith (42) | |||||
Top try-scorer | Edward Collins (20)[1] | |||||
Top point-scorer | Johnathan Thurston (220) | |||||
Home stadium | Suncorp Stadium (52,500) | |||||
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Team results | ||||||
First game | ||||||
![]() ![]() (Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane; 16 May 1908) | ||||||
First State of Origin game | ||||||
![]() ![]() (Lang Park, Brisbane; 8 July 1980) | ||||||
Biggest win | ||||||
![]() ![]() (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane; 8 July 2015) | ||||||
Biggest defeat | ||||||
![]() ![]() (Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney; 4 June 1957) |
The Queensland rugby league team represents the Australian state of Queensland in rugby league football. Nicknamed the "Maroons" after the colour of their jersey, they play three times a year against arch-rivals New South Wales in the State of Origin series. The team is currently coached by Billy Slater and captained by Daly Cherry-Evans, and is administered by the Queensland Rugby League. They play all of their home matches at Brisbane's Lang Park (known due to naming rights as Suncorp Stadium).
Since 1908, a rugby league team representing Queensland has been assembled from players based in the state to compete annually against New South Wales. The team used to play matches against other high-profile foreign and domestic touring teams, but has not played anyone other than New South Wales in several decades. From 1980 onwards, when Queensland was first allowed to select players of local origin even if they were currently at clubs outside its borders, the team's success rate against New South Wales improved dramatically. From 1980-87, clubs from both the Brisbane Rugby League and the NSWRL provided players for the side. Since the creation of the Brisbane Broncos in 1988, Maroons players have only been selected from the NSWRL (until 1995) and its successor competition, the National Rugby League, with the sole exception of Game III 2001 when Allan Langer was selected from the Super League. As of 2023, the Maroons have won thirteen out of the past eighteen series, including a record-breaking eight successive State of Origin victories between 2006 and 2013.
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